Add colors to pushd, popd, and dirs bash commands! 🧑🏻‍🎨

color_popd.sh

# All my gist code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

# Copy this into your .bashrc or something like that.

# custom dirs
# - default to 'dirs -v' format and colorize the output
function dirs () { 
  # if no arguments, or single argument is -v or -c, then colorize
  if [ $# -eq 0 ] || { [ $# -eq 1 ] && { [ "$1" = "-v" ] || [ "$1" = "-c" ]; }; }; then 
    # if argument is -c, run it (clear stack)
    if [ "$1" = "-c" ]; then
      command dirs -c;
    fi;

    # colorize output
    command dirs -v | command awk '
      BEGIN {
        green = "\033[32m";
        bold = "\033[1m";
        reset = "\033[0m";
      }
      {
        $1 = bold sprintf("%2d", $1) reset;
        $2 = gensub(/(.*\/)([^\/]+)/, green "\\1" reset bold "\\2" reset, "g", $2);
        print $1 "  " $2;
      }'
  else
    command dirs "$@";
  fi;
}

# custom pushd
# - prints dirs if successful
function pushd () { 
  command pushd "$@" > /tmp/pushd_out 2>&1;
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    cat /tmp/pushd_out;
    command rm /tmp/pushd_out;
    return 1;
  fi;
  dirs;
  command rm /tmp/pushd_out;
}

# custom popd
# - same thing
function popd () { 
  command popd "$@" > /tmp/popd_out 2>&1;
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    cat /tmp/popd_out;
    command rm /tmp/popd_out;
    return 1;
  fi;
  dirs;
  command rm /tmp/popd_out;
}